The Couperin consortium collects data on APC expenditures from universities and other research institutions in France.
Additional APC expenditures by the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) have now been made available to OpenAPC.
Contact Persons for Couperin are Valerie Larroque and Sandrine Malotaux.
Cost data
The new data set provided by Couperin for the CNRS covers publication fees for 1,077 articles published in 2017. Total expenditure amounts to 1 909 453€ and the average fee is 1 773€.
Overview
A detailed analysis of the contributed data sets provides the following overview:
Breakdown by publisher
| Articles | Fees paid in EURO | Mean Fee paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Springer Nature | 351 | 676640 | 1928 |
| Public Library of Science (PLoS) | 117 | 173051 | 1479 |
| Frontiers Media SA | 87 | 149330 | 1716 |
| Elsevier BV | 72 | 153386 | 2130 |
| Copernicus GmbH | 70 | 110985 | 1586 |
| MDPI AG | 49 | 56546 | 1154 |
| Oxford University Press (OUP) | 42 | 81408 | 1938 |
| Optical Society of America (OSA) | 31 | 50230 | 1620 |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 26 | 58472 | 2249 |
| IOP Publishing | 22 | 38429 | 1747 |
| Impact Journals, LLC | 17 | 45281 | 2664 |
| American Geophysical Union (AGU) | 12 | 22888 | 1907 |
| eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd | 12 | 25906 | 2159 |
| Informa UK Limited | 10 | 9616 | 962 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) | 10 | 8743 | 874 |
| PeerJ | 9 | 8876 | 986 |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) | 8 | 21956 | 2745 |
| American Society for Microbiology | 8 | 9339 | 1167 |
| Hindawi Publishing Corporation | 8 | 14120 | 1765 |
| Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 8 | 18838 | 2355 |
| The Royal Society | 7 | 13844 | 1978 |
| EDP Sciences | 6 | 3800 | 633 |
| Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) | 6 | 8783 | 1464 |
| Scientific Research Publishing, Inc, | 6 | 4159 | 693 |
| Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 6 | 6500 | 1083 |
| AIP Publishing | 5 | 8647 | 1729 |
| American Chemical Society (ACS) | 5 | 8839 | 1768 |
| The Company of Biologists | 5 | 13388 | 2678 |
| American Meteorological Society | 4 | 13641 | 3410 |
| American Physical Society (APS) | 4 | 9412 | 2353 |
| Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) | 4 | 6550 | 1638 |
| EMBO | 4 | 19740 | 4935 |
| Pensoft Publishers | 4 | 1377 | 344 |
| Society for Neuroscience | 4 | 7926 | 1981 |
| International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | 3 | 2121 | 707 |
| Genetics Society of America | 2 | 3896 | 1948 |
| Geological Society of America | 2 | 4794 | 2397 |
| Inter-Research Science Center | 2 | 1800 | 900 |
| JMIR Publications Inc. | 2 | 3864 | 1932 |
| MyJove Corporation | 2 | 6252 | 3126 |
| Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) | 2 | 3018 | 1509 |
| Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy (REABIC) | 2 | 1240 | 620 |
| Shared Science Publishers OG | 2 | 1701 | 851 |
| SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng | 2 | 1704 | 852 |
| Academic Journals | 1 | 463 | 463 |
| American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) | 1 | 3150 | 3150 |
| American Psychological Association (APA) | 1 | 2700 | 2700 |
| American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (ASBMB) | 1 | 1800 | 1800 |
| American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) | 1 | 1436 | 1436 |
| Bentham Science Publishers Ltd. | 1 | 704 | 704 |
| Cogitatio | 1 | 500 | 500 |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press | 1 | 2500 | 2500 |
| F1000 Research, Ltd. | 1 | 560 | 560 |
| Ferrata Storti Foundation (Haematologica) | 1 | 1500 | 1500 |
| Japanese Society of Microbial Ecology | 1 | 484 | 484 |
| Mary Ann Liebert Inc | 1 | 883 | 883 |
| Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften | 1 | 200 | 200 |
| Papers in Physics | 1 | 193 | 193 |
| Science Publishing Group | 1 | 200 | 200 |
| The Electrochemical Society | 1 | 670 | 670 |
| Ubiquity Press, Ltd. | 1 | 475 | 475 |
Fees paid per publisher (in EURO)
Average costs per publisher (in EURO)
